Lamp-socket.



L. G'ITDEMAN.

LAMP SOCKET.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4, 1911.

Patented Aug. 29, 1911.

Inventor est:

' Atty FFIQEE.

LEO GTJDEMAN, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

LAMP-SOCKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 4, 1911.

Patented Aug. 29, 1911.

Serial No. 606,484.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEO GI'iDEMAN, citizen of the United States of America, residing at No. 24 WVest Thirty-third street, New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lamp-Sockets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved lamp socket, more particularly adapted for ornamental purposes.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a socket which is adapted to receive a removable ornament preferably carried by a sleeve designed to telescopically fit tightly over the sleeve of the lamp socket.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein an embodiment of the invention is illustrated, Figure 1 is an elevational view of the assembled lamp and socket having the ornament in position thereon; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the lamp and socket without the ornament; and Fig. 3 is an elevational view, partly in section, showing the sleeve which supports the ornament partly telescoped with the lamp sleeve.

Referring to the drawing by reference characters, 10 designates an ordinary bulb having the threaded socket 11 which is suitably secured in the sleeve 12 of indurated fiber or analogous material, and 13 are the current conducting wires for the lamp. Lamps of this character are used for various ornamental purposes, such as room decorations and Christmas tree outfits, and it is desirable to provide means whereby various ornaments may be interchangeably placed on the lamps, and to attain this object I provide a sleeve 14 which is made of material like that of the sleeve 12, and to the outside of the sleeve 14 may be secured in any suitable manner preferred ornamentation such as the leaves 15 shown in Fig. 1. When the ornamentation is secured to the sleeve 14 the latter is telescoped with the sleeve 12 as indicated in Fig. 3. The sleeve 14 fits fairly tightly over the sleeve 12, but may be easily detached therefrom.

From the foregoing description it will be noted that in a very simple and economical manner greatly varied ornamental effects may be produced, whereby the invention is usable in many connections where high priced ornaments are now employed.

In combination, a lamp provided with an extended cylindrical sleeve of a material which produces greater friction between two movable portions thereof than does metal, of a second cylindrical sleeve of like material adapted to receive ornamentation and to telescopically fit over said first named sleeve, whereby said sleeves will be held together solely by frictional contact of the material of which they are constituted.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEO GUDEMAN.

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